Anyone hear of the following eBay policy?
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Has this been verified? No More Money Orders/Checks on eBay
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PoppaJ
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clue what kind of stuff is about to go down.
There will be LOTS of shocked folks, on 10-20-08.
clue what kind of stuff is about to go down.
There will be LOTS of shocked folks, on 10-20-08.
Storm, you mean that 85% of small timers don't even realize they won't be able to offer any payment options other than PayPal? It will be a shock then, if they're that uninformed. This policy is going to be the one that buries eBay.
<This policy is going to be the one that buries eBay.>
hopefully somebody with some brains will come along and fix it the way it was, ebay used to be so simple,now you have to have a doctorate in astopsychics to understand what they are even breaking that dont need fixed
Let us be more cynical than that. You know exactly why ebay is going with this policy. Since Paypal and Ebay have the same ownership group, adopting a no check, cash or money order policy means everyone has to use paypal, hence more money for paypal and the ownership group overall.
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looking for low grade t205's psa 1-2
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Based on what I think I know and am observing, FEW folks are
aware that paper-payments are about to be history.
THOUSANDS of buyers will be emailing sellers, wanting to know
why there is "no money order" option in checkout.
THOUSANDS of sellers will be emailing EBAY, wanting to know why
their listings are being poofed.
It's going to be FUN to watch.
there were 2 different psa-1 t205 ZACH WHEATS for sale
item #1 took paypal only $22
item #2 took any payment method $37
and they sold only a week apart from each other...well i think ebay will lose money and there are some large sellers like DSL sports who only deal with money order checks and no paypal who will most likely go away. and they sold almost 10,000 items...
looking for low grade t205's psa 1-2
<< <i>your right it is going to be fun..ha hahere is what i have noticed in the past
there were 2 different psa-1 t205 ZACH WHEATS for sale
item #1 took paypal only $22
item #2 took any payment method $37
and they sold only a week apart from each other...well i think ebay will lose money and there are some large sellers like DSL sports who only deal with money order checks and no paypal who will most likely go away. and they sold almost 10,000 items... >>
Who were the sellers and what day and time did they end those are big factors in determining the final price. I consistently get as high of a price or higher than average prices since I went Paypal only in July 2007.
DSL has their own merchant account I believe.
<< <i>I think the policy hurts many of the good sellers that want to accept alternate payment methods but it will hinder the bad sellers. Overall it's probably a fair move by ebay. >>
They will still be able to accept other payments they just cannot open communication that they can.
As far as the checkout thing as well as the disconts based on Feedback/DSR both of those are the subject of a couple of pending lawsuits. I read somewhere a group of attorneys is about to start putting together a class action suit on the DSR/Feedback thing very very soon.
<< <i>I like the move. Paypal is the fastest, most efficient way for both seller and buyer. I recently bought a Mantle card that I didn't realize only took money orders or checks and besides taking forever to finally get here, when it did it wasn't as good as described and I had little recourse. If you can't afford the paypal fees then you probably shouldn't be buying and selling on ebay anyway. >>
As a seller I have only accepted Paypal since July of 2007 and will never buy anything where they don't accept Paypal. As a seller it makes it easier to track and file UPIs as Paypal is really the only way the buyer can prove it. They have also hinted that sellers will soon be able to leave negs again, but only if the transaction was followed through in their checkout system.
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